Noriko Shimada

Noriko Shimada is a Professor and Director of the American Studies program at Japan Women’s University in Tokyo. She was a research fellow in the Ethnic Studies program of the University of Hawai`i at Manoa in 1995. Professor Shimada is the author of many academic papers, including four papers about Hawai`i’s Japanese immigrants’ poetry club activities and their poems, and she has written several books, including: The Pacific War and Japanese Americans on the West Coast and Immigrants and Their Communities in Hawaii during and after the Pacific War. Professor Shimada was born in Tokyo in 1944 and received her MA from Syracuse University in 1969.